Scavenger Hunt Answers

Scavenger Hunt Answers: Florida's History (3rd Grade)

Florida's Native People:

1. Question: What is the nickname the Seminoles give themselves?
Answer:"Unconquered People"

2. Question: What major river did the Timucuan people live near?
Answer: St. John's River

3. Question: What are the names of the six major tribes of Florida?
Answer:Apalachee, Calusa, Cherokee, Seminoles, Timucuan and Tocobago

4. Question: What are the houses that the Seminole's lived in called?
Answer: Chickee houses

5. Question: What animal is the opening dance to any Seminole stomp dance dedicated to?
Answer: Whooping Crane

Florida's Discovery:

6. Question: Which explorer sailed to Florida and is given credit for discovering the state?
Answer: Juan Ponce de Leon

7. Question: What city did the explorer Hernando de Soto spend his first winter?
Answer: Tallahassee

8. Question: What year was Florida discovered?
Answer: 1513

Florida's State History:

9. Question: What color are the stripes on the Florida State flag?
Answer: Red

10. Question: In 1824, a new capital of Florida was founded, the cities name is?
Answer: Tallahassee

11. Question: On what date, was Florida accepted into the State Union?
Answer: March 3, 1845

12. Question: What animal was named Florida's state animal?
Answer: Panther

Florida's Important People:

13. Question: Who was the first governor of Florida?
Answer: William Pope Duval

14. Question: Who was the first person to claim the region of Florida?
Answer: Juan Ponce De Leon

15. Question: In what year was the first women's conference?
Answer: 1975